Cake

http://www.cakefinancial.com/

Last activity: 30.05.2020

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Overview

Employees

1-10

Total raised

$1.26M

Founded date

2018

Investors 1

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Funding Rounds 1

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Mentions in press and media 21

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May 1, 2009	FinancialContent acquires social investing site SocialPicks	Updated with confirmation We’re hearing that SocialPicks, a fantasy stock website, has been acquired by financial data and business news company FinancialContent. There’s been no official word from either company, but if you visit the Socia...
Feb 10, 2009	Social investing site Cake Financial raises $1.26M more	Cake Financial, a social networking site for investing, is raising a $1.5 million addition to its first venture round, with $1.26 million raised so far. The San Francisco-based company lets users import their portfolio data from multiple br...
Dec 15, 2008	SEC Gives Social Investing Site kaChing Green Light To Take On Mutual Funds	Every social investing site wants to turn the insights of its trading members into financial products that people can actually link to their brokerage accounts. Finding the few brilliant stock pickers in the crowd and then letting everyone ...
Dec 5, 2008	Peek at Cake Financial’s dwindling portfolios	Everyone knows the stock market is tanking, but how is that affecting individual investors? Social investing site Cake Financial released data today shedding some light on how its users are coping with the crumbling economy. The answer is p...
Oct 24, 2008	19,683 Tech Layoffs And Counting	This has been a brutal month or so for tech layoffs. According to our Layoff Tracker, there have been 19,683 job eliminations at tech companies announced since mid-September, and we’re not even counting the 24,600 people at Hewlett-Packard ...
Sep 4, 2008	Social stock site Cake Financial launches new stock ranking and recommendation features	Cake Financial, a startup that lets you compare stock picks with other investors, is unveiling three features that may help separate it from a large pack of competitors. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company already lets users import hist...
Sep 4, 2008	Cake Financial Pushes A New Social Stock Index: The Cakedex. Can It Beat The S&P 500?	One year after it launched at TechCrunch40, Cake Financial is rolling out a new design today with a load of new features. One of the most interesting is a new stock index called the Cakedex that is based on the top 100 holdings of the top p...
Jun 18, 2008	Social Investing Site Covestor Is Now Open to the Public	Covestor, a social investing site where people share the performance of their real stock portfolios, came out of private beta this morning. Now anyone can join, and it is welcoming voyeurs who only want to watch other’s performance but not ...
Jun 11, 2008	Microsoft helps launch Zignals, another stock-trading site	Zignals is debuting today as a site to help ordinary investors trade stocks as intelligently as more sophisticated investors. Based in Dublin, Ireland, Zignals lets individual investors set up a bunch of rules and conditions that make it ea...
May 3, 2008	In Case You Were Looking For Another Way to Share Your Stock Picks…	Many of us think we know what’s going to happen to the stock market. Few of us actually do. MarketGuru enables the more talented investors to reap the benefits of their predictive capacities and help others along the way. While many social ...
Apr 30, 2008	Personal finance site Mint adds investment tracking	Updated with comments from chief executive Aaron Patzer Mint, a free site that allows you to manage checking, savings and credit card accounts through an easy-to-use interface, will soon allow users to manage their investments, too. There a...
Apr 7, 2008	Social Investing Site Covestor Raises $6.5 Million	There are no secrets online anymore. People share everything, even the performance of their personal stock portfolios. Social investing site Covestor raised $6.5 million in a series A financing based on the appeal of this concept. The round...
Apr 7, 2008	Covestor joins the ranks of funded investment sites	Covestor, an investing community site, has raised $6.5 million in its second round of funding. The London and New York-based company plans to build out its asset management platform, which helps its users make investment decisions. Covestor...
Feb 25, 2008	Cake Financial Now Lets You Track Your Friends' Stock Portfolios on Facebook	Of all the apps on Facebook, here is one that might actually make you money—depending on how smart your friends are. Cake Financial, a social finance site that lets you track and share the performance of your actual brokerage accounts, just...
Feb 11, 2008	A survey of social investing sites: 11 contenders	We’ve seen social editing, social networking, social news, social bookmarking, and even social music take off. Now a social shock to the system is coming to a market usually dominated by insiders and experts: the finance industry. Online tr...
Feb 6, 2008	Wikinvest To Add Unique Comp Data For Stock Research	Financial and stock research sites like Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Marketwatch, or CNNMoney have done a lot to democratize investment research by bringing reams of financial data for any publicly traded company to investors at the click...
Nov 14, 2007	Billeo Secures $7 Million In Financing	Online bill pay service Billeo has announced a $7 million Series B round of funding. ATA Ventures led the financing, with additional contributions from all of Billeo’s existing investors including Altos Ventures, Claremont Creek and Pacific...
Sep 22, 2007	Covestor	A big theme at TechCrunch 40 was social/web financial services. Mint and Cake launched there and Mint came away with the top prize. To many, it seemed that these two companies were the first movers in their respective market spaces. But tha...
Sep 17, 2007	New companies, continued: MusicShake, Cake Financial, Ponoko, TripIt standout	Ten more companies presented during today’s afternoon portion of the Techcrunch40 conference. If we were able to have stock in these companies, here’s the order we’d rank them: MusicShake, Cake Financial, Tripit, Ponoko, Everywhere, CrowdSp...
Sep 17, 2007	TechCrunch40: Crowd Sourcing	The last session of the 1st day at TechCrunch40 was about crowdsourcing. Note: for a full round-up of the day’s action at TC40, check out Allen Stern’s sterling effort at Center Networks. Cake Financial Cake Financial is a financial sharing...

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FAQ about Cake

When was Cake founded?

Cake was founded in 2018.

How much funding has Cake raised?

Cake has raised $1.26M in total across 1 funding round.

What has the press written about Cake?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning Cake, among them “FinancialContent acquires social investing site SocialPicks” (May 1, 2009) and “Social investing site Cake Financial raises $1.26M more” (Feb 10, 2009).

Is Cake still active?

Yes, Cake is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 30, 2020.